Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII

NOAA - NHC ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

[NautiNurse]

Category 4 Hurricane Katrina is approaching landfall in Eastern Louisiana. At 4:00AM EDT the storm's center was about 90 miles south of New Orleans.

The following links are self-updating:

Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track
Navy Storm Track
Katrina Track Forecast Archive Nice loop of each NHC forecast track for both three and five day
Forecast Models
Alternate Hurricane Models via Skeetobite
Bouy Data Louisiana/Mississippi
Buoy Data Florida

Lake Ponchartrain Real Time Water Level

Wind Speed Data

Images:

New Orleans/Baton Rouge Experimental Radar Subject to delays and outages - and well worth the wait

Mobile Long Range Radar Loop

New Orleans/Baton Rouge Radar

Ft. Polk, LA Long Range Radar Loop

Northwest Florida Long Range Radar

Storm Floater IR Loop
Storm Floater Still & Loop Options
Color Enhanced IR Loop

Other Resources:

Hurricane Wind Risk Very informative tables showing inland wind potential by hurricane strength and forward motion
Central Florida Hurricane Center
New Orleans Web Cams Loads of web cam sites here. The sites have been very slow due to high traffic
New Orleans Music Online Couldn't resist--love that jazz
Golden Triangle Weather Page Nice Beaumont weather site with lots of tracks and graphics
Hurricane City
Crown Weather Tropical Website Offers a variety of storm info, with some nice track graphics

Live streaming:

Cut and Paste:

http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad

Fully-linked version of the live feeds (just in case a few people don't want to first open up WMP to cut-and-paste) -

WWL-TV/DT New Orleans (WMP) - mms://beloint.wm.llnwd.net/beloint_wwltv
WVTM-TV/DT Birmingham (WMP) - mms://a1256.l1289835255.c12898.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/

1256/12898/v0001/reflector:35255
WDSU-TV/DT New Orleans (WMP) - http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38202.asx
Hurricane City (Real Player) - http://hurricanecity.com/live.ram
ABCNews Now (Real Player) - http://reallive.stream.aol.com/ramgen/redundant/abc/now_hi.rm
WKRG-TV/DT

Mobile (WMP) - mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast

.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518 WDSU-TV/DT New Orleans via WESH-TV/DT Orlando - http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38843.asx

Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12

Category	Wind Speed	Barometric Pressure	Storm Surge	Damage Potential
Tropical Depression	< 39 mph < 34 kts			Minimal
Tropical Storm	39 - 73 mph 34 - 63 kts			Minimal
Hurricane 1 (Weak)	74 - 95 mph 64 - 82 kts	28.94" or more 980.02 mb or more	4.0' - 5.0' 1.2 m - 1.5 m	Minimal damage to vegetation
Hurricane 2 (Moderate)	96 - 110 mph 83 - 95 kts	28.50" - 28.93" 965.12 mb - 979.68 mb	6.0' - 8.0' 1.8 m - 2.4 m	Moderate damage to houses
Hurricane 3 (Strong)	111 - 130 mph 96 - 112 kts	27.91" - 28.49" 945.14 mb - 964.78 mb	9.0' - 12.0' 2.7 m - 3.7 m	Extensive damage to small buildings
Hurricane 4 (Very strong)	131 - 155 mph 113 - 135 kts	27.17" - 27.90" 920.08 mb - 944.80 mb	13.0' - 18.0' 3.9 m - 5.5 m	Extreme structural damage
Hurricane 5 (Devastating)	Greater than 155 mph Greater than 135 kts	Less than 27.17" Less than 920.08 mb	Greater than 18.0' Greater than 5.5m	Catastrophic building failures possible

[filbert]

10-12 feet of water inside the levees in N.O. - John Hall, Army Corps of Engineers spokesman on FNC

[spectre]

Next year? WE should pray it's that long.. Two more disturbances brewing in the Atlantic..as we speak.

sw

[jbstrick]

you're kidding, right?

[RobFromGa]

Center of mass.

That's probably why they wear their pants pulled down so low, to throw off the policeman's "center of mass" calculation.

[Calpernia]

Water level data plotting

http://140.90.121.76/cgi-bin/station_info.cgi?stn=8762372+East+Bank+1,+Norco,+Bayou+LaBranche,+LA

[WestCoastGal]

"I'm hoping it was a very positive respond from the audience over a solution to solve the Border crisis! "

That would put him at the top of the list for 2008 I would imagine!

[Dog Gone]

You can see the jog that saved the city of New Orleans from destruction.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/float-vis-loop.html

That just saved us billions of dollars and countless lives, not to mention irreplaceable historic sites.

[sonofatpatcher2]

From: http://www.oilvoice.com/GoM_Contracts_Aim_to_Help_Fill_Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_/847.htm

These contracts demonstrate MMS's continuing commitment to maximize taxpayer assets, improve government efficiencies and enhance our nation's energy security by filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve," said MMS Director Johnnie Burton. With these latest contracts, MMS will take its oil royalties in kind (oil), rather than in value (cash), from offshore federal lease operators and deliver it to onshore oil market centers where DOE will take custody of the oil. DOE, in turn, will exchange the RIK oil for oil of suitable quality that can be delivered to SPR storage sites located in Texas and Louisiana.

Hummm... Heck of a deal! Date is Friday, August 15, 2003, and that makes it a good deal under W's watch...

[dfwgator]

Any news about Picayune?

[Diddle E. Squat]

CNN: Slidell hit hard, but no details.

[WoodstockCat]

Barbour says they will brief again at 4:00 PM CST.

[Palladin]

AARGH, spectre! Two more? I'm going on a cruise in the Atlantic next week. Should be an adventure!

[Marysecretary]

I'm not worried at all, but you'd be surprised at the number of people who don't or won't. Glad you do!

[fhlh]

"HEADSHOT"

[Wonder Warthog]

"I'm afraid the whole concept of building a major city below sea level is tragically flawed."

Uh, it warn't "below sea level" when it was started. The current depth is the result of several centuries of subsidence , silt deposition, and a number of other factors.

[Hurricane Andrew]

TD 13 is nothing anymore. National Hurricane Center issued its last update for it this morning, unless is reorganizes. They had expected at least a TS out of it, but it has quickly fallen apart. Thank God, though it likely would have only ended up a shippers problem in the north Atlantic anyway.

[bwteim]

His worst fear.

[the Deejay]

Could you take that particular discussion to another thread? thanks.

Which discussion?

I think I've been discussing...THINGS PERTAINING TO THE HURRICANE???? Am I not?

Maybe you'd like to change threads?

[rwfromkansas]

It sounds really, really bad in Gulfport, but thankfully the storm did not re-strengthen prior to landfall.